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[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
Hi All,

I have a problem where my phone crashes and reboots when I launch an app that uses the camera in any way, for example layar, barcode scanner, camera etc. This only happens in Android 2.1, I've tried various ROMs and always the same issue. I've tested Android 1.5 and there are no problems with that at all.

I've noticed the crashes only occur when I'm on battery power, it never happens when the phone is plugged in so I cannot get logs to see what is going on, unless someone knows a way to get the logs from a crash.

I was wondering if anyone else has seen this problem and if so, if they've found a resolution to it.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ssechaud1982:
Since updating with the OTA 2.1 update I have been experiencing this problem too. Phone reboots when it uses the camera, Layar, Yelp, AugSatNav all seem to cause the problem.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ggre2675:
I get this problem too, with the camera, and also sometimes when I put the volume down it freezes and reboots :(
[Hero, G2 Touch General] xaerocom:
I've got the same problem. Restarting when launching apps using the camera.. Im glad that's not a HW problem but "only" SW bug.. I hope :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] bonesy:
It could (and probably is) a radio issue....Happens on the N1 and Desire if you try to use the camera too and seeing as the GPS,Camera both are dependant on the radio id say that is it! Find the radio reccomended with the rom you use and flash it( Beware of orange users being locked down though,you need a specific radio)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] harryjan:
Just to add that I'm getting the same problem too running FroydVillain 1.2.2 and baseband 6.35.15.14, should point out that been having the problem for quite a while on a multitude of ROMs :-(
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
I'm not - did you full wipe?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] harryjan:
Multiple wipes...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
try 1.3 i guess
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Gynjanynja:
I had this problem when I was on stock 2. 1 I would recommend rooting and flashing froydvillain.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] harryjan:
Tried multiple ROMs and multiple Radios with no change :-(

Unless theres a second secret wipe button hidden in recovery I don't know what else I can do :-/
[Hero, G2 Touch General] robyrocker89:
try to disable "automatic brightness"... ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dlads:
Hi,

I have had this problem since i went to 2.1 also, i have also flashed several rom's since villainrom 12 and have even used rcmix 1.0b which is a great 2.1 imo.

Have flashed 2.2 roms, and i am still having the same problem.

This is how i can replicate this problem and how it occurs, to the letter.

1.Bring phone out of lockscreen.

2.Open camera.

3.Take pic, in dark or light lighting with brightness on any setting.

4.Save pic.

5.Close camera.

6.Lock phone and wait for 10 seconds.

7.Bring phone out of lockscreen.

8.Open camera.

9.Phones lights all go out and the hero name flashes up onto the screen.

10.Full reboot.

This happens everytime no matter what.

Some things to consider.

The phone will never reboot if it is plugged in to a usb / electric plug Charger and is actually charging.

The phone will remain on and will carry on taking pictures IF you don't close out of the camera the first time around.

No task killer was installed on my phone at the time of this test, although i have had task killers before with the same results.

Lighting effects and brightness can sometimes have an effect on the ratio and probablility of a reboot, with brightness on full in a dark room being the most probable.

I am using the newest froyd rom 1.4.3 although i have tried pretty much every rom out there, I NEVER have this error when i installed a 1.5 rom which does not have apps2sd (weird that) which tells me that it is NOT a hardware fault.

I am using villains no logo kernel 19mhz - 691mhz

63.18.55.06PH_6.35.15.14 Radio

HTC Hero on Orage UK.

IF anybody can shed any light on this rather annoying matter resulting in this problem being erradicated will earn my eternal respect and a big clock. : )
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
I can confirm that this isn't a bug on every install of 2.1 or 2.1 as I am unable to replicate the issue as described. Also if you've tried mutiple software and the bug is occurring across many that would suggest it is something hardware related or you are not performing a full wipe. Have you tried backing up the data on your sd card and formatting that then putting back only the necessary data (pics / music etc)?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
I originally posted this issue and the descriptions from everyone else with the problem match mine pretty much perfectly.

I've taken all info off the sd card and performed a complete wipe of data, ext and davlik before formatting the sd card. I've put the blank SD card (apart from the ROM I'm about to flash) back into the phone and flashed. After config and before any new apps are installed on the phone I launch the camera and within 4 attempts at start the camera the phone will crash. This has happened across every 2.1 ROM I've tried, but doesn't happen on 1.5 ROMs.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
Using the stock camera app? Have you tried without installing any of your own apps at all?

This is very odd. No matter what I try I can't get the camera app to crash. Though I am using v2.2 of android. Have you tried official 2.1? Vanilla and Sense?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
Yep, it crashes using the stock app.

I've tried a rooted version of the offical but not the actual OTA update. I've not tried vanilla as I don't really want to run vanilla on it.

I've managed to take some logcat logs of the problem happening but there's nothing really specifc happening over a few crashes that would point to anything. .

I'm going to try to unroot my hero and downgrade to stock to start again. Just have to find a way to downgrade my bootloader first so I can put on the original RRU. I tried to downgrade before but got an invalid bootloader error.

The camera crash doesn't really affect me day to day as I don't really use the camera, where it is annoying is it stops you using apps that use the camera like goggles and layar.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
Ahh - so its not the camera app that is crashing but other apps too which are using the camera. Very odd.

And FYI - you don't need to touch your bootloader - just change the driver in windows to My HTC instead of HTC Bootloader and the rru will work.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dlads:
I have formatted and re partitioned my sd card to a T and it still occurs and thats with everytime i install a new rom, i don't use titanium i go the long way around every time and re set up all my programs, I know i can replicate this error like i said and like i also said this does not occur in 1.5 roms.

I have also have this problem with vanilla, modaco's new one, villain rom, rcmix, froyd, it appears that ever since the phone was updated to 2.1 there is a problem when using the camera app.

I have tried to install a rom and replicate the issue without installing any apps at all and it still persists, the only thing i can say is that it doesn't happen when i'm either on 1.5 OR the phone is charging?

It sounds like the the phone is requesting access for use of the camera and then not putting back what it requested in the first place, like a cache or something, and it simply make the phone reboot when it is called upon again.

I don't believe it is a hardware fault, i know this sounds like wishful thinking but the phone does not have this error in 1.5 roms. Thus, it cannot be hardware. Simple!

Also a logcat does not show anything, i was only able to replicate the error once whilst my phone was plugged in, it just won't do it again, and when i posted my findings on villainroms bug report section, a few of the lads still didn't know what it was so i don't know what else to say.

I'm due for an upgrade in October so for me at least it's not that much of a deal but i'm planning on giving this phone to my daughter so it would be good to get it working for her.

Would save me a lot of earache.

If u need to know anything else then please let me know, oh and i am using a class 2 sd card, which i have been unable to change, however just today my girlfriend has just had a class six delivered and her old one will be up for grabs so i will test with that too. Has anyone else tried with multiple cards??? Also how do i find out what boot loader i am using (recover) as maybe the problem resides there.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] dlads:
Thats right, its any app which accesses the camera.

What could be the correlation between connecting the charger and not connecting the charger, could that be a power issue and the battery is delivering too low a power output on it's own to run the camera? Hence it works with the charger plugged in ?? Either way i think that is the only real clue there is to be honest, unless your phones still restart when the phone is plugged in, in which case it's not much use.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
Really? Great, I didn't know that. I'll try that later on today so.

FYI, if you dowload an app call adbWireless it lets you adb to your phone wirelessly. This means you don't have to use the cable, so no power goes to the phone so the crash happens as normal and you an gather logs for it easily.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
That's a point - have you tried capturing a logcat of this happening? Do you know how to?

If not - basically follow the ADB guide in my sig. When you have adb working just type:

adb logcat

Into a command prompt and it should start scrolling text. If you can capture that into a text file (can't remember the command off the top of my head) you could post that up and I can have a look if you want.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
Here are two different logcats from my camera crashing:
[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
Sorry to ask a silly question, but which driver am I changing and where is it?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
Change your driver in "device manager" under "adb interface" change the "htc bootloader" driver to "my htc" using the drivers in the HTC folder (if needed) should just show up in the list (not automatic).

In terms of your log - they are probably useful but i can't see what's wrong.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
Hey, probably another silly question but when I plug my phone into device manager "ADB Interface" does not show up, all that shows up is "Android USB devices", is this the same driver or am I missing something?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] -rev-:
Upgrading to Froyd 1.5 appears to have cleared this problem for me. Granted I'm only on this about an hour so I can't confirm too much yet but after testing the camera a good few times there has been no crash yet.
[Shift Development] ramaeder:
Hi

I do have Windows 7 on my shift and winmo side the rom from thaihugo age of reason.

It works fine but the connection to the PC side does only work by chance and

stops working when I want to start the gsm connection.

Does anybody have an idea or is USBtool not working on win 7 .

Thanks Ralph
[Shift Development] thaihugo:
USB tools and gsm connection from PC are mutually exclusive. They are sharing the same connection and switching the state. This does not depend on Windows 7, but it's how the shift is build. That's why they excluded the sync from the stock version.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n4th4nr1ch:
I'd like to remove some of the bloat which is still in Fresh.

RSS Reader

Peep

Flickr

BlueTooth Share

I was able to remove some of the programs but the above I can't remove.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elegantai:
well, you can try using adb. use the command:

rm /system/app/<application-name>.apk

You will need to reboot. You may not want to remove the bluetooth share though, as some apk's are required for the system to function correctly. I have never tried to remove that app, so I don't know how the system will react. If anything messes up though you can just push the apk back, or do a nandroid backup before you remove anything
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCL1981:
I removed Peep, Flickr, and RSS using this method with Fresh and all is well. Didn't touch the BT app.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camdz:
you can also get a program like root explorer. And delete the apk from the system>app folder. Well worth the $1-2 for this program.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n4th4nr1ch:
OK cleared off some junk.

adb shell

rm /system/app/Flickr.apk

rm /system/app/RSS.apk

rm /system/app/NewsReader.apk

rm /system/app/HtcTwitter.apk

rm /system/app/com.htc.TwitterWidget.apk

rm /system/app/Bluetooth.apk

rm /system/app/Calculator.apk

rm /system/app/Calendar.apk

rm /system/app/VoiceDialer.apk

rm /system/app/htccalendarwidgets.apk

rm /system/app/com.htc.rosiewidgets.*

rm /system/app/htcbookmarkwidget.apk

rm /system/app/HtcStreamPlayer.apk
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n3oS7oRm:
Did you not have any problems with the widgets afterwards? When I did app removal using that method my widgets list was all messed up showing strange icons and displaying text such as #bf00070

Very frustrating...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MCL1981:
You have to reboot after you do it to let it clear that junk out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n3oS7oRm:
Hrm, I believe I tried thats well I'll give it another go.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladthedog:
My personal recommendation, at least until you are 100% positive removing an app won't break something (or even if you are not 100% sure you don't in fact want the app) is to use root explorer. highlite the apps (individually of course) you don't want and rename to something like "calculator.apk" to "calculator.apk.bak". This way if, down the road you are having issues that may be tied to the app you removed, you can easily remove the ".bak" part and everything is back to normal. This way you can also be more aggressive on what you are removing and still have a backup plan.

You can also do this completely free via adb, but i am often-times screwing around with stuff like this on the road... root explorer easily allows me to do all that and more. any app that you rename with "bak" (or "old" or any thing else for that matter.. pick a system that works for you and go with it) will look like its no longer in place.. so unless you need the space you could just leave it there for future use.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonyh703:
terminal

you can also download a FREE terminal and:

su

cd /system/app

rm packagenamehere.apk
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonyh703:
Or you can do as the guy above me said and rename them:

su

cd /system/app

mv filename.apk filename.apk.bak
[General Accessories] jbej:
I have used this keyboard with Nokia N800, and just found it, I have tried to connect it to my Desire without luck.

I have tried in the original rom, using 2 different HID managers

KeyPro and BlueInput, but neither works..

Seems that KeyPro Driver Version 1.06.12 does not want to search for my phone, while Version 2.00.02 can detect and get mac adress, but get stuck at connecting.

BlueInput doesn't detect that bluetooth is turned on and stops there.

Is there other possibilities without rooting, or working under the hood?
[General Accessories] jbej:
I have tried again with BlueKeyboard JP which looks more promising,

I can pair, but can't connect to the keyboard :(

It have been reported working on Nexus w. Froyo

So I don't think much is needed to get it to work on Desire w. Froyo

any clues?
[General Accessories] WIFITO:
Hi I have a lg p500 and Nokia su-8w don´t work for me on froyo 2.2 but I test on with blueinput on lg gw620 froyo 2.2.1 and work without sync.

if you start adb logcat can you see this on lg p500 with froyo 2.2 :

I/BTL-IFS ( 2439): main_server_thread: [CTRL] Client connected (22)

I/BTL-IFS ( 2439): attach_client: multiclient index 0

I/BTL-IFS ( 2439): attach_client: ######## Attached client subsystem BTS (22) ##

######

I/BTL-IFS ( 2439): btl_if_notify_local_event: Notify local event BTLIF_SUBSYSTEM

_ATTACHED

D/ ( 2439): btlif_bts_api_ctrl_cb: btlif_bts_api_ctrl_cb : id BTLIF_SUBSY

STEM_ATTACHED (4112) on hdl 22

I/ ( 2439): btlif_rfc_ctrl_chan_attached: client attached ctrl handle 22

D/BTL-IFS ( 2439): send_registration_rsp: send_registration_rsp [0]

I/BTL-IFS ( 2439): send_ctrl_msg: [BTL_IFS CTRL] send BTLIF_REGISTER_SUBSYS_RSP

(CTRL) 2 pbytes (hdl 22)

E/BLZ20_WRAPPER( 2476): ##### ERROR : blz20_wrp_connect: protocol BTPROTO_L2CAP

not yet supported#####

E/BLZ20_WRAPPER( 2476): ##### ERROR : blz20_wrp_close: protocol BTPROTO_L2CAP no

t yet supported#####

I/BI::GUI ( 2476): Connect to (Nokia SU-8W) res=-2 (0=SUCCESS)

I think the problem is the l2cap protocol is not suported well on 2.2

I hope this help you.
[General Accessories] micl9:
Sorry to pull an old thread out of the past, but...

I had a couple of these SU-8W keybds from my old Nokia days and recently came across one in my junk drawer.

Long story short, it works with my Droid X :D One of the soft keys even maps to the android menu function!
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
Is there a way on the Vibrant to flash *.zip files like on the Nexus One? For example, I have a Mobile Defense as System App *.zip file that on the N1 I flash from the Recovery menu. Is this possible on the Vibrant? How else can I install System Apps?
[Vibrant General] blazewit:
it will be posible to flash .zip files in recovery once we get a custom recovery. there is a guy working on porting clockwork as we speak so it souldnt be too long before we can flash roms and kernals and other .zip stuff
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
You can only use the .zip flash function on the phone to manipulate some files. If you wanted to add a completely new rom you must use Odin. The clockwork recovery being done is still in it's very basic stage where nothing is working. So it's impossible to tell if they will get it to work especially since the bootloader is completely different from all other android phones.
[Vibrant General] spigatelli:
Why not just inzip it on your computer and move the apk to your sd and install it that way?
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
Cause then it wouldn't be a system app. He could just use adb to push the file though.
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
Tried to push the file but I can't do adb remount. It says no such file or directory. What am I doing wrong?
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
Anyone??????
[Vibrant General] DAKIDD236:
Your probably pushing the file to the wrong place.. Do you have the Samsung drivers and SDK installed?
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
Yes, because every other command works. Also, if you look, I am getting the error when not even trying to push. I am trying to do ADB REMOUNT.
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
Samsung devices use a different code to remount. Try this

mount -o rw,remount /dev/st9 /system

This is ripped from the behold 2 so you might have to play with the directories
[Vibrant General] kusotare:
yeah, if anyone can figure out what the mount directories are from /dev/ it would be great. i'm trying to push my ringtones so that they dont show up in media scanner. seems like a simple trick, but when remount wont work and we dont know the mount directory, its harder than it seems.
[Vibrant General] hah2110:
Operation not permitted
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
Do you have root?

If so then it might just be because we don't know what mounting block to use.
[Vibrant General] kusotare:
we do know what mounting block to use.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=729976
[Android Software Development] rogershroed1991:
When the screen is off and a call comes in, I get the "swipe down to answer" thing. You can press the volume buttons to mute the ring. Is there any way to just ignore the call and send it to voicemail?
[Android Software Development] uTauro:
Basically you just "swipe up" to do that
[Vibrant General] siberslug:
Works great :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=716755
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
How did you get this to install? I downloaded several times but it won't open the installer. Even tried to install by astro.
[Vibrant General] siberslug:
I just put it in the root of my SD card and clicked on the app and clicked install.

it takes a bit of time but it works great.

Try redownloading if it still does not work.
[Vibrant General] aerohoff:
did you dl from rapidshare and get a ~100kB file? That happened to me and I dled from one of the other posts, got a ~100MB file and it worked fine.
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Yeah looks like that is what I did. There's a different link in a later part in that thread for hotfile which worked
[Vibrant General] orateam:
did you guys root your phone already ?

Can it be unrooted if needed?
[Vibrant General] temperbad:
I'm rooted and you just delete the su apk along with the busy box one too. Using adb or terminal on the phone too get rid of root...
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Can't install it says I don't have enough storage on my phone
[Vibrant General] siberslug:
wow !! We have 2GB for apps on our phones right ?
[Vibrant General] disturkis4u:
Yeah its 99.29mb for the game and I have 1.34 left and it says to free up some storage =/
[Vibrant General] BUNZ1:
im not rooted.

i put this on my phone, not the SD card, and ran it through the file manager and it installed fine.
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] adamsweeting:
Hi People... It's my first post, so please be gentle!

Thanks to this board I now have a fully rooted X10i - everything went smooth except for having 64bit java, but found answers to everything here, so props to all you lot.

I've got all the usual suspects installed on a rooted phone (root explorer, set cpu, cachemate, root manager etc) - all working fine.

But... the one that interests me the most is Autostart. 3 questions:

1) I've added a busybox command to automatically mount the filesystem as rw and that works great. - Is that super dangerous to do?

2) I saw some others that have installed autostart have added a command to use swapon /sdcard - when I try that I get "unsupported" - I'm guessing that is because we don't have custom ROM yet, and the generic kernel does not support swap?

3) Can anyone suggest any other good uses of an autostart script?

Thanks peeps, and peace out...
[XPERIA X10 Android Development] j4mm3r:
Check this out

1. Mounting /system as rw automatically... hmmm... sounds useful, but is it? I don't know about dangerous, but take a look at this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=712951

2. Don't know and didn't try. But, sounds interesting... will look into it. I was more inclined to first create an ext3 filesystem on the sdcard and move stuff around from the /data filesystem on to there...

3. Well once we get a working custom ROM, we can use groh_kun's splboot loader to boot into it.
[Windows Mobile] seeM_ZA:
Hello folks :)

I've tried searching and that didn't turn up with any straight forward ways to disable it. For those who might not know what it is, I'm talking about the small bar that slides down from the taskbar when you press the clock on the top right (where the default task manager usually is). It's only found in 6.5.x SYS.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile] 3ek:
Information is wrong. Post edit not to cause confusion...
[Windows Mobile] seeM_ZA:
Anyways, I installed Arkswitch. Now the left side of the taskbar = arkswitch, middle = htc notifications and the right side does nothing.. most of the time. Now and then it is possible to open that bar but it's mostly gone so I guess that's good enough for me :)